Religion Dispatches
…ok for the words “social justice” or “economic justice” on your church web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, the idea, hang on, am I advising people to leave their church… yes!… If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish.” And the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good responded. Beck needs to get out more. I don’t know about the Bo…
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…in Israel and a Palestinian state” tout court, Obama had called on his Web site for “an Israeli state and an Islamic state in Palestine.” Unthinkable, right? But why? Why is it natural (and for many, laudable) for one religion to be officially and openly linked to the identity of one state [Judaism], while it’s considered off-putting, and even a threat to international security, for another religion [Islam], to be linked to the identity of a neigh…
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…tells us…”) but it was generally accepted that the local Tewa people had visited this site for much the same purpose long before the first Spanish missionaries arrived. The church was built here, in other words, because the ground itself was already regarded as holy. Founded by Christians on land sacred to people who had lived there for millennia, El Santuario de Chimayo might be seen as a reply to the long-ago challenge put before Native American…
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…e 1 Panel 2: Attendance info Clinton’s quote from the State Department Web site. Panel 4: Rosen’s quote from this 2005 New Yorker article. The comment about Rosen’s past as an espionage defendant concerns his August 4, 2005 Indictment on suspicion of passing US government information to Israel. Panel 5: Quote from page 2 of Kenen’s book, Israel’s Defense Line: Her Friends and Foes in Washington. Panel 7: For a full list of its offices, go here. Pa…
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…nner reading “Trident: Illegal + Immoral,” poured their own blood over the site, and beat on the ground and the fences with household hammers before being apprehended and arrested. “We walk into the heart of darkness,” they wrote in a statement distributed to supporters and media, “as one step up the holy mountain where all nations can unite in peace” (read the group’s full statement here). The five, who call themselves the Disarm Now Plowshares,…
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…ces on April 15. This year, others are joining in. (See, for example, this site, which draws on the historic role of tax resisters in the effort to obtain woman suffrage and points to an argument made then by a gay man.) Quakers, who were historic leaders in LGBTQ rights (even I remember their early pamphlets on this topic), remind us that war and LGBT rights are not unrelated. They ask: “Is Opposing the War an LGBT Issue?” The answer, while compl…
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…compassion still to be done and we will be addressing this need in our Web site in the New Year. Each week there will be more issues to discuss, refinements and questions answered, and I hope to write a piece weekly about such topics as the compassionate interpretation of scripture, the importance of acquiring accurate information about other people, and what it means to “love” our enemies. There has been a lot of interest in the Charter. One of t…
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…Shouldering all things together The part of Sudan I am in right now is the site of yet another proxy war, different from the one in Somalia, but with reminiscent undertones. In Somalia, the Shabaab do the bidding of the broader Al Qaeda network and are supported by this global movement. In Abyei, Sudan, the on again, off again local warring parties—Arab, nomadic cattleherders and sedentary black Christians and atheists—are, as Griswold writes, “pa…
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…tion that the bishops carry that kind of power.” Powell added that elected officials need to hear that perspective. “When I have had conversations with elected officials, and say, we support a woman’s right to choose, we support access to abortion, and I am a person of faith, they are extremely thankful to hear that. They say we need to hear more from your constituents and people like you.” *This passage has been modified slightly to more accura…
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…uld talk for half an hour naked, about almost anything. (There’s also a website, in which Taub leaves her own digital trail of blog posts.) Despite the media focus on the connection between Taub and DePape, however, she clearly hasn’t been involved in any of his recent actions since she’s been in the California Institute for Women for stalking and the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old boy since 2021. DePape’s association with Taub and his vote…
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